Do you mean how they stretched the sett horizontally a bit?
That's one of the things that can happen when you pleat to the sett.
It also can happen that the sett gets horizontally compressed a bit.
Because sometimes you have to fudge a bit for the sett to be centred on the back of the kilt.
There are several reasons that I have my kilts pleated to the stripe, and without belt-loops.
Your kilt demonstrates one I had forgot about.
My main reason is that because my weight fluctuates my kilts can be taken in and let out without the back being thrown off-centre, because there's no centre-point on a kilt pleated to the stripe and lacking belt-loops.
Also if you pleat to the stripe you get two looks for the price of one. Sometimes the difference between the front and back of a kilt is visually striking.
Besides those things, pleating to the stripe is more traditional. Military kilts and most pipe band kilts are pleated to the stripe.
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